Medicinal Plants Promising Future for Health and New Drugs

This book highlights the importance of traditional medicines, focuses on the standardization of herbal medicine and evaluates opportunities for advancing drug research. It addresses issues in utilization of medicinal plants and shares the importance of herbs in neutraceutics. It provides most competitive techniques being used in research.

Cabbage: A store house of nutraceuticals. Phytonutrients: A relevance to human health. Lukoskin: An effective herbal treatment of leucoderma developed by defence institute of bio-energy research (DRDO), Haldwani. Centipede envenomation effects on human beings and scientific research on traditional antivenom agents: Aristolochia and Piper sp. Anti-Diabetic Herbal Formulations: An Effective Therapeutic Approach to Diabetes. Anti-diabetic activity by the in vitro α-Amylase and α-Glucosidase inhibitory action of Indian Ayurvedic medicinal plant Ficus amplissima Smith. Anti-obese potential of Indian traditional medicinal plants and their phytochemicals. Promise of medicinal plants for neurodegenerative disease: Alzheimer’s a review. Plant Sources as Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease. Schefflera genus (Araliaceae): A review of its botanical description, ethnobotanical use, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology. Selective Chinese viviparous ferns, their bioactive principles and economical values: a review. Prospects of local flora of trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh for various medicinal uses. Phytochemistry of Muntingia calabura fruits. Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical investigation on Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth.) Sant.& Wagh. Anti-fungal and Antimycotoxigenic Properties of Pogostemon mollis Benth. Against Fusarium graminearum. In vitro biomass accumulation and different biological activities of Leucus aspera (Willd.). Antioxidant potentials of Cup Saucer plant - Breynia retusa (Dennst.) Alston. The promising anti-radical potential of Castanospermum australe A. Cunn. & C. Fraser ex Hook. In vitro plant regeneration, comparative biochemical and antioxidant potential of calli and seeds of sesbania grandiflora (l.) Poiret.

Dr. Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, completed his graduation from St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Trichy and Ph.D from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. His areas of specialization include Bioprospecting of medicinal plants. He is currently engaged in compilation and documentation on available knowledge on valuable plant resources to prove their utility scientifically through detailed phytochemical, biological and pharmacological investigations, isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from potential medicinal plants, their interaction with proteins and mechanism of actions. He has 15 years of research and 7 years of teaching experience. Added to the credits, he had authored quite a few books and book chapters in his felid of specialization. He has filed four patents and has more than 65 research publications in international and national peer reviewed journals. Currently, he is engaged in the investigation to find out some novel herbal drugs and nutraceutical product to treat some of the most common human diseases like diabetes and cancer.